Wrapped this up a couple of weekends ago. Used loctite on the first bearing while I was pressing it in and it was stressing my 20-ton press. Had to put my full weight on the pump handle to get the bearing to seat. Loctite seems completely unnecessary. So, the second one I installed with waterproof grease to aid assembly and no loctite. Still took some serious force on the press. Can't imagine that bearing moving around, especially after the big snap ring is in place. Nice and quiet now.

Got distracted with some bad mission creep and POR-15'ed the dust shields, knuckles and hubs (black of course) and painted my calipers with POR-15 silver caliper paint.

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David.X5
2001 X5 4.4i Sport
SOLD! at 160k miles